A Sick Future As Planned By Dick Cheney

Rating: 4/10 (14 August 2005)

I liked the movie but there is a long drag with the high speed chase through LA in a future of sparkling technological novelties. The chase actually becomes boring. However the concept of the movie is excellent, the mad scientist (Djimon Hounsou) Albert Laurent raising clones for replacement parts and creating an imaginary world wherein they await the service they would render.
The imaginary world is the Island, the last unpolluted spot left on earth. The clones await their turn to be called to the Island through a lottery.
That (Ewan McGregor)Lincoln Six Echo and (Scarlett Johansson) Jordan Two Delta would eventually outsmart Laurant and his system is consistent with human nature. The fall of any autocrat comes from taking a big clomp on the Big Lie he preaches.
I won't spoil the ending but I'm not sure that conforms with my understanding of human nature. If you destroy an entire population's belief structure too quickly might they not take defencive measures to preserve it?